Current Champion
Nikolas Polsinelli, career statistics:
44 correct, 6 incorrect
2/2 on rebound attempts (on 5 rebound opportunities)
35.96% in first on buzzer (41/114)
4/5 on Daily Doubles (Net Earned: $10,600)
1/2 in Final Jeopardy
Average Coryat: $17,500
To win:
3 games: 64.111%
4: 41.102%
5: 26.351%
6: 16.894%
7: 10.831%
Avg. streak: 3.786 games.
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All Time Winnings
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Regular Play Only:
1. Ken Jennings $2,520,700
2. James Holzhauer $2,462,216
3. Matt Amodio $1,518,601
4. Amy Schneider $1,382,800
5. Jamie Ding $882,605
6. Cris Pannullo $748,286
7. Mattea Roach $560,983
8. Jason Zuffranieri $532,496
9. Scott Riccardi $455,000
10. David Madden $430,400
11. Julia Collins $428,100
12. Matt Jackson $411,612
13. Austin Rogers $411,000
14. Ray Lalonde $386,400
15. Harrison Whitaker $373,999
16. Adriana Harmeyer $349,600
17. Caleb Groen $346,968
18. Adam Remsen $306,415
19. Ryan Long $299,400
20. Arthur Chu $297,200
All Time Jeopardy! Winnings, Including Tournaments (and Consolation Prizes):
1. Brad Rutter $4,968,436
2. Ken Jennings $4,372,700
3. James Holzhauer $3,614,216
4. Matt Amodio $1,964,601
5. Amy Schneider $1,864,800
6. Yogesh Raut $1,598,403
7. Victoria Groce $1,023,801
8. Mattea Roach $897,983
9. Jamie Ding $885,605
10. David Madden $785,733
11. Cris Pannullo $754,286
12. Roger Craig $706,200
13. Andrew He $684,365
14. Larissa Kelly $671,930
15. Matt Jackson $623,612
16. Jason Zuffranieri $549,496
17. Paolo Pasco $548,717
18. Scott Riccardi $533,000
19. Jerome Vered $499,102
20. Julia Collins $495,767
21. Austin Rogers $493,000
22. Juveria Zaheer $491,000
23. Ben Ingram $449,201
24. Adriana Harmeyer $446,600
25. Buzzy Cohen $441,603
Triple-stumper from Friday, 1-28: In I Owe You an ‘-ology’: “This -ology, part of sociology, uses the theory of differential association (i.e., hanging around with a bad crowd).”
I had to rely on the Internet for this one, because I didn’t find anything in any of my books about this theory. But I wanted to know more about it and how someone could up with the correct response from this clue. I texted this clue to a friend who has a degree in criminology, and she didn’t know the answer. However, she did not know the category. I gave that to her, but she simply asked me what the answer was. I don’t think she knew I was still hoping she’d answer. If anyone reading this has a criminology degree, I’d love to hear from you, too. I also asked about this on the Jeopardy! message boards and on Twitter. I didn’t hear from anyone on Twitter, but these were two responses on the boards:
- “I feel the ‘hanging around with a bad crowd’ part of the clue was facile and misleading. It doesn’t help at all, and in fact muddies the water. I also don’t see criminology as a branch of sociology, any more than so many other -ologies are, although I suppose technically it might be.”
- “I don’t know about ‘unreasonably hard,’ but it wasn’t very clear IMO. My first thought was “criminology” but I immediately dismissed that because that was an awfully poor definition of criminology. In retrospect I think it wasn’t supposed to be a definition, but more along the lines of ‘what -ology involves this theory?’ At any rate I clammed, then slapped myself.”
The theory in this clue was proposed by Edwin Sutherland, a sociologist who I was very surprised and pleased to discover was born in small-town central Nebraska, in 1883. I also discovered it was he who coined the term “white-collar criminal,” in 1939. The theory is pretty much summed up in the clue: a person develops a habit of committing crime as a result of interacting with those who commit crime, as opposed to those who do not.